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*Special Issue: Domestic Service *
*Location:* 	Canada
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Call for Papers

Special Issue: Domestic Service

Domestic service occupies an exceptional role in labour history for its
historic and contemporary intersections with issues of gender, race, and
class. As such, the study of paid domestic labour—women (and to a lesser
extent, men) hired to cook, clean, perform child care and other
services, in private homes and public spaces—has evolved. Once seldom
acknowledged as ‘real’ labour, its position on the boundary of home and
work, and the often similarly unstable position of domestic workers in
the labour market make it an important site of study The work of these
women and men—and, specifically, women and men of colour—is consequently
both a project of labour historians seeking to capture the stories of
these neglected workers and a site that feminist, Marxist, and
poststructuralist historians and theorists have used to interrogate the
concept of labour itself.

Left History is seeking submissions for a special issue on Domestic
Service, to be published in Fall 2007. We are looking for articles that
detail the history of domestic service across a variety of geographic
areas and periods, as well as articles that will interrogate the
relationship between domestic service, labour, gender, race, class, and
immigration.
Left History welcomes research articles, theoretical pieces, reviews,
and artwork. Manuscripts should ideally be 20 to 30 pages, or 10 000
words, and can be submitted electronically or by mail to the addresses
below. The deadline is March 1st, 2007.

	The Editors, Left History
Department of History
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON
Canada M3J 1P3

email: lefthist at yorku.ca

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